From 10:45 p.m. Friday, December 7 to 5 a.m. Monday, December 10, there are no G trains between Court Square and Bedford-Nostrand Avs due to installation of electrical components north of Greenpoint Avenue. G trains operate between Church Avenue and Bedford-Nostrand Avs. Free shuttle buses operate between Bedford-Nostrand Avs. and Court Square making all G station stops.

From 5:30 a.m. Saturday, December 8 to 10 p.m. Sunday, December 9, there are no J trains between Crescent Street and Jamaica Center due to structural steel repair and painting north of Cypress Hills. J trains operate between Chambers Street and Crescent Street. Free shuttle buses operate between Crescent Street and 121st Street, then connect to the E at Jamaica-Van Wyck, where service to/from Sutphin Blvd. and Jamaica Center is available.

From 10:45 p.m. Friday, December 7 to 5 a.m. Monday, December 10, Manhattan-bound Q trains run express from Sheepshead Bay to Kings Highway due to track panel installation south of Kings Highway.

From 6 a.m. to midnight, Saturday, December 8, there will be no R train service between 34th Street and Whitehall Street, due to signal restoration in the Montague tunnel. Customers may use the 1 train between Times Square and Rector Street or the 4 or 5 trains between Union Square (N, Q) and Bowling Green as alternatives.

When I receive those weekend service change E-mails every week, it STILL says that Smith-9th St. will be closed “until Fall 2012”. At this rate, I wonder if they will still be ritually giving us that statement every week in the Spring of 2013.

No, it just means that nothing will be physically standing in the way of operating express service. It doesn’t mean that it makes sense to operate express service on the line (just as it doesn’t make sense to operate express service on the West End line).

At the very least, there would have to be a public hearing before express service is implemented. Two of the three busiest stations on the line would experience a significant service cut, and it’s certainly not clear to me that express service would be a net benefit to the riders.

Simple. Many of the busiest stations on the Culver line are local stations, which would be bypassed by an F express. Local service would necessarily be less frequent than it is now if some trains run express.

The CBTC test track doesn’t stand in the way of rush hour express service – but common sense does.

Your proposal would reduce service at three stations, including a transfer point, but the time saved by the express would be marginal at best – the express wouldn’t even be able to pass the local ahead of it.

If the busiest stations were south of Church, express service would be seriously worth considering. But on this line, the busiest stations are all between Church and Bergen.

See my post above, I am proposing a F local and a F express, not just the F express.

Commuters traveling north of Coney Island or Kings Highway taking the F express could travel to Church Avenue, then transfer to the F local. If they are taking the F local, they don’t need to transfer. I am not proposing that the F local be completely eliminated, I am proposing two similar services, one of which runs local and the other of which runs express.

And I already responded to that: “Your proposal would reduce service at three stations, including a transfer point, but the time saved by the express would be marginal at best – the express wouldn’t even be able to pass the local ahead of it.”